"With Stanwick's help, a metalworking company managed to create a plan to reduce lead time by 90%. Following the principles of Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), the focus was shifted from cost to time. This broke down barriers in traditional thinking, leading to the possibility of reducing MCT (Manufacturing Critical-path Time) from 80 days to 8 days."
Wire Rope Industries
Part of Bekaert group
Process improvement
Today we are flooded with tools & techniques to improve our business process. Just think of Six Sigma, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), Lean, QRM (Quick Response Manufacturing), TQM (Total Quality Management), ... All these techniques have undeniably their advantage, but are often built from a well-defined vision. An integrated approach is thus required.
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